I'm just throwing this out, I don't care if the mods move or delete this post.

For the past several years I've had a very nice cache of cyan mushrooms. Yes the psychoactive ones. The ones that make you trip.

I've noticed something interesting - I think they improve my hearing. If I take just a small amount, like a nickel sized piece of shroom flesh - not enough to trip, it makes my hearing more acute. I swear. I'm almost 40, have good hearing normally. I find I become much more sensitive to high frequency sounds (like my CRT, computer power supply and fans) and I think my hearing overall becomes more acute. Suddenly I can hear the neighbors in my apartment complex much more clearly (having good hearing can be a bit of a curse).

I doubt the drug changes the mechanics of hearing, but it does tweak the nerve conduction and sensory processing. It's thought that most of perception is unconscious and a lot of stuff gets filtered before it reaches the level of conscious perception. Perhaps the drug removes some of this filtering?

I've read a few accounts online that agree with this, including one person with moderate hearing loss that found low doses of shrooms helped his hearing greatly.

It would be interesting to actually measure this and see if there's a real difference in hearing acuity, or if it's all in your head

Seems to me "better hearing" is being presented as a form of "better living." It is not being classified as "same living" or "worse living" I do not think. I rarely see posts like these on the part of responsible scientific types doing real scientific research. I see lots of it by people who abuse drugs, though, and try to rationalize their behavior. Not that this is the case here, of course. I am sure that the cache of mushrooms has been used for scientific research for the past several years. The tripping was only an accidental by-product of this research, right? This is, I am sure, real scientific research.

Seems to me "better hearing" is being presented as a form of "better living." It is not being classified as "same living" or "worse living" I do not think. I rarely see posts like these on the part of responsible scientific types doing real scientific research. I see lots of it by people who abuse drugs, though, and try to rationalize their behavior. Not that this is the case here, of course. I am sure that the cache of mushrooms has been used for scientific research for the past several years. The tripping was only an accidental by-product of this research, right? This is, I am sure, real scientific research.

Good grief. Now you're reading far too much into this. I'm not trying to equate tripping with "better living". That's all you. Sheesh. And I'm not trying to rationalize my behavior either - if I want to trip I do so, no need to come up with an excuse. I simply noticed that small amounts of this drug seem to have a very noticeable effect on my hearing, much more so than other recreational drug that I've tried - and I've tried just about all of them Take it or leave it. It's interesting that the most uptight responses to this topic are likely from people that have never tried shrooms.

It would be interesting to see some 'real' scientific research on this topic though I doubt it's going to happen anytime soon.